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Giving notice in writing

Giving notice in writing, Chapter XVII of the Act, containing ss. 138 to 142, was inserted in the Act as per Banking Public Financial Institution and Negotiable Instruments Laws (Amendment) Act, 1968. When the legislature contemplated...

Bill of credit

Bill of credit, a license or authority given in writing from one person to another, very common among merchants, bankers, and those who travel, empowering a person to receive or take up money of their correspondents...

Pandect', or Digesta

emperor, 'antiquorum prudentium quibus auctoritatem conscribendarum interpretandarumque legum sacratissimi principes pr'buerunt.' The compilation, however, comprises extracts from some writers of the republican period, Const. Deo Auctore. Ten years were allowed for the completion of the work. The

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Underwriter

Underwriter, an insurer of ships, so called from his writing his name under the policy of insurance. See INSURANCE. Also subscribers (generally before a public issue by the company) offering to take all or a stated...

Sedition

Sedition, an offence against the Crown and govern-ment, not capital, and not amounting to treason. It cannot be tried at Quarter Sessions. See the (English) Unlawful Assemblies Act, 1799 (39 Geo. 3, c. 79); the (English)...

Secretary

Department of Government, Webster American Dictionary, p. 1317. Secretary, one entrusted with the management of business; one who writes for another; the head of a Government department; an officer of a company, or club, etc. Secretary of

Surrender

Surrender [fr. sursum redditio], an assurance restor-ing or yielding up an estate, the operative verbs being 'surrender and yield up.' The term is usually applied to the giving up of a lease before the expiration of...

admission

admission 1 : the act or process of admitting [ into evidence] 2 a : a party's acknowledgment that a fact or statement is true NOTE: In civil cases admissions are often agreed to and offered...

Falsification

Falsification. 1. Pedigree.--For a vendor or mortgagor or other person disposing of property or any interest therein for money or money's worth to a purchaser of land or chattels real or personal, or for his solicitor...

Schedule

Schedule, a small scroll; a writing additional or appendant, as a list of fixtures in a lease or details of any matter contained in the body of a deed, document., or of enactments repealed and other...

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